By Joe Maniscalco

On Saturday March 15, scores of trade unionists, retirees, laid off workers, and their families took to the streets of NYC to march against the Trump administration's draconian cuts to the federal workforce. Here’s what the scene looked like on Broadway…

By Joe Maniscaclo

On Wednesday, March 12, New York City home attendants forced to work round-the-clock shifts, while being paid for roughly half the time, attempted to deliver a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul calling out her role in perpetuating "violence against women." Building security outside the governor's Third Avenue offices refused to accept their letter. This is what the scene looked like:

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City home care workers hoping on Wednesday afternoon to deliver a direct appeal to Governor Kathy Hochul to declare round-the-clock work in the industry as “violence against women” were instead told to take their letter and walk it over to the nearest Post Office.

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams launched her mayoral campaign over the weekend hoping to distinguish herself from that other Adams already in office.

By Joe Maniscalco

The Chinese-American Planning Council, the highly influential social services organization at the heart of NYC’s battle to end round-the-clock shifts in the home care industry, may insist those slavish 24-hour shifts are unfair to workers—at least 80 home attendants working for its subsidiary are still doing them.

By Steve Wishnia

Contract talks at Kaleida Health, the largest health-care provider in Western New York, began March 4. The almost 8,000 workers involved are seeking “improved staffing levels and added safety protections in the workplace,” according to the two unions representing them, 1199SEIU and Communications Workers of America Local 1168.

By Joe Maniscalco

None of the six candidates trying hard to succeed Mayor Eric Adams at last night’s nearly 2-hour mayoral forum at DC37 stood up for New York City municipal retirees fighting back against the Medicare Advantage push—save one.

By Joe Maniscalco

Pending New York City Council legislation aimed at stopping embattled Mayor Eric Adams from stripping municipal retirees of their Traditional Medicare health insurance benefits recently picked up added traction and three new cosponsors.

By Joe Maniscalco

Maybe they thought nobody was watching? 

A year after seizing control of the DC37 Retirees Association and suspending officers opposed to the ongoing Medicare Advantage push in NYC, the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees—under the auspices of Administrator Ann Widger—has begun pumping out letters declaring the Retirees Association’s sudden and miraculous opposition to legislation aimed at protecting Traditional Medicare benefits.    

By Joe Maniscalco

It was déjà vu all over again this week in NYC when the head of the Municipal Labor Committee [MLC] once more fired off another letter to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams warning her that legislative efforts to protect the Traditional Medicare benefits of 250,000 municipal retirees “should not be permitted to proceed.”

By Ryn Gargulinski

Greed. Lies. Betrayal. Rage. While these sound like great ingredients for a soap opera or action thriller, they are less than ideal for real life. Yet they are the key components in the real-life fight New York City retirees are waging against being shuttled into the aptly nicknamed Medicare Dis-Advantage Plan.

By Joe Maniscalco

UFT President Michael Mulgrew wants members of the New York City Council to introduce and pass new legislation giving hard-working paraprofessionals a sorely-needed $10K salary boost.  But hold on, if those same City Council people are treating pending legislation protecting the Traditional Medicare benefits of municipals retirees like an ugly green hunk of Kryptonite—why are they rallying behind this effort?

By Adrian Spencer

East River Landing, once a beacon of affordable housing, is in now in crisis

East River Landing, a Mitchell-Lama cooperative in East Harlem, has long stood as a symbol of affordable housing for working families. Established in 1974 by Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Workers’ Union (now 1199 SEIU), the cooperative was designed to provide safe, affordable homes for its members. Today, it houses 1,594 apartments, many occupied by union retirees and their families. However, under Metro Management Development Company and its principal officer David Baron, this beacon of affordability is now a flashpoint for mismanagement, neglect, and frustration.

By Steve Wishnia

Frustrated after eight months of fruitless negotiations to reach their first union contract, professional and clinical home health-care workers in Rochester have voted to authorize a strike of up to three days long.

By Joe Maniscalco

We now know that the head of the union representing more than 40,000 New York City Transit workers is officially out. Former TWU Local 100 President Richard Davis resigned under pressure last week, amidst ugly allegations of “inappropriate sexual behavior” and outrageous abuse of power.

But why just now, many rank and file members wonder—when these kinds of complaints have been swirling around for years?

By Ray Rogers

It’s Time to End New York's Multi-Billion-Dollar Stock Transfer Tax Rebate To Wealthy Wall Streeters

While infrastructures throughout New York State are crumbling and critical public services are grossly underfunded or non-existent, the message for years emanating from the offices of Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is "now is not the right time." Well, maybe now is not the right time for them but most certainly it is the "right time" for millions of suffering New Yorkers.

By Bob Hennelly 

For years now, members of Congress and 9/11 WTC advocates have been rebuffed in their bid for the records maintained by the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations about what they knew and when they knew it regarding the deadly air in lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

By Steve Wishnia

Doctors at seven of New York City’s public hospitals have voted to ratify the tentative contract agreement reached Jan. 13, but physicians at three others voted to reject it, the Doctors Council SEIU announced Jan. 27.

By Joe Maniscalco

“Out sick—or just “out” period?

TWU Local 100, the union representing New York City Transit workers, says embattled President Richard Davis is currently “out sick until further notice. But opponents of the recently re-elected union head contend he’s done and the International is taking over.

By Steve Wishnia

Doctors in the New York City Health + Hospitals system reached what their union called a “groundbreaking new contract” agreement Jan. 13—but a group of members is urging a vote against ratifying the tentative deal, saying it doesn’t do enough to address the system’s “physician staffing crisis.”